[GRASS-dev] [bug #4450] (grass) g.remove vect: empty dirs in the $MAPSET/.tmp/$HOSTNAME left

[Markus Neteler]

Maciek,

On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 01:32:24PM +0200, Maciek Sieczka via RT wrote:
> I have built current Grass 6.1 CVS on Ubuntu Breezy with
> http://mpa.itc.it/markus/tmp/clean_temp2.c apllied.
> 
> Built fine. Empty dirs are still left after 'g.remove vect', but they are
> removed after quiting Grass session. Is this what it's expected to do?

Yes. Because the clean_temp is called upon start and stop of a GRASS
session using the standard launch procedure ("grass61").

> I'd
> prefer each such empty dir be removed right after 'g.remove vect' is done, but
> maybe this is not so critical.

This is an issue of the program creating the vector map in
question. Which one did you use? A script, r.* or v.*?

Markus